Managers’ Traditional Gender Role Attitudes Diverging Relations With Narcissistic Admiration and Rivalry and the Daughter Effect

Abstract

Our study investigated gender role attitudes in narcissism. Using a representative data set (N = 2,850) from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in Germany, we examined how two narcissism dimensions (i.e., admiration and rivalry) are related to managers’ gender role attitudes. We also expected that having a daughter is related to less traditional gender role attitudes (daughter effect) and tested whether having a daughter moderates the link between rivalry and traditional gender role attitudes, especially in fathers. Overall, as expected, admiration was negatively and rivalry positively related to traditional gender role attitudes. We also found partial support for the daughter effect.